This conversation will be followed by a catered reception. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions. While the conversation will happen in person (Brown will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. Assembly (2021) was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction. She was a 2019 London Writers Award recipient, a 2022 Burgess Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, and a Women’s Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures Award finalist. A poetic and concise examination of race, gender, and class, the work refuses to look away from the power relations comprising the core of the modern world. Ultimately, Brown’s narrator is forced to decide the price she is willing to pay to undo the structures which limit her, and reclaim agency over her circumstances. Having formed herself into a success story, she finds her life reduced to the narrative white society demands of her. When a successful Black woman receives unsettling news, she considers the constituent parts of her life: her high-paying job in finance, her prestigious education, her white boyfriend. In Natasha Brown’s debut novel Assembly, a carefully crafted identity begins to come apart.
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